Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

Chapter 35: hunting prey

Views:

One of the most tragic things is to find a doctor's notebook with very important clues, but find that I can't understand the words on it - the legendary messy cursive script from the doctor.

Even though Jin Lei is also a doctor, and is said to be a very talented surgical elite, she still can't understand the diagnosis record written by a family doctor, because the handwriting... is really scribbled!

Su Zimo peeked silently, and actually felt that this work notebook was either a bunch of wavy lines that didn't make sense, or a ghostly drawing that didn't know whether it was a picture or a word.

"Damn it!" Holding the work diary in his hand tightly, Doctor Jin, who has always been dashing, is now sitting at the dining table, gnashing his teeth and looking at the horizontal line filled with books, "I can't crack it, it's a humiliation to my professional ability! "

"Doctor Jin, don't be nervous, you're about to scare sister Wan Ling." Qi Xiaomin comforted her and took a chocolate for Dr. Jin.

Although they really didn't feel the time passing by substantially, when they returned to the hall, they actually felt their stomachs growl, as if they hadn't eaten all day.

[bang-bang-bang-]

[Boom! Boom! Boom! ]

"It's so annoying!" The madman lying over there rolled his eyes with a resigned expression, "We've been arguing for a few hours, and it's not over yet?!"

"Don't you want to have some activities featuring Nightmare World?" Xiaohuo also rolled his eyes at the lunatic, "It's you who thinks it, and it's you who doesn't want to, who do you think you are! I don't know which park you run in. The vagabond who came out came here to act like a big man?"

Speaking of short-tempered, this time, there is not only Mr. Madman in the team.

"The kid who hasn't graduated from high school is here to be the big brother, how can you be more confident than me?" The madman looked at Xiaohuo's red-dyed hair and red leather jacket and black leather pants with disdain, "Even if you are a tramp, You have more social experience than you."

"What's wrong with not graduating from high school? At least brother, I can go to college, and I will never be a homeless in my life!" Xiaohuo has always called himself "Brother Xiaohuo", with a baby face, but very similar to Du Xin's high school days Kill Matt style.

"Maybe, I'm too lazy to educate little kids." The madman simply closed his eyes as he closed his eyes and looked reassured.

"Does it look familiar?" Su Zimo looked at Xiaohuo's red hair and smiled at Du Xin pointedly.

Du Xin, who now has a clean head, scratched his head embarrassedly, lowered his head and said, "Isn't it ignorant at that time? But what that madman said was really not very pleasant."

"At that time, you must have disliked me." Du Xin suddenly turned his head, as if he was afraid of hearing Su Zimo's response.

"No." Su Zimo shook his head, "That kind of dress should be just a personal hobby."

"You've always been like this..." Du Xin suddenly sighed and turned to look at Su Zimo, "Obviously he is a very gentle person, but it's not easy to get close to. He has a good temper with everyone, but in fact There were no friends in the class or even in school. I was rebellious and even felt that I was living in a completely different world from you.”

"It sounds like I'm rather annoying." Su Zimo took off his glasses and wiped them, his fan-shaped eyelashes trembled slightly, making Su Zimo's facial features look softer after taking off his glasses, "I'm a little sorry. ."

"I think, maybe it's because you haven't met any special people, right?" Du Xin scratched his cheeks, looking a little embarrassed, "I remember that before you transferred schools, once I went back to the classroom after playing football and saw You are the only one in the classroom, and you are still chatting with the few goldfish raised by everyone, talking very seriously, and laughing, which is very different from usual."

Su Zimo just smiled habitually. It wasn't that he couldn't be moved, but just like the smile on his face, he was used to not showing too much emotion on the outside. This kind of habit from childhood to adulthood does seem to make Su Zimo have no friends around.

Even Su Zimo seems to have never had the ultimate purpose of so many things from childhood to university. He only knows that he is destined to enter the Su family in the future, and he does not know what else he can do.

Su Zimo felt that if someone knew what he was thinking, they would definitely say with a smile: You are living in such a daze, why don't you just accept your fate and let the remaining 300-odd days pass, why bother yourself in the nightmare world .

But for Su Zimo, he is a person who looks calm, but his heart is too much tossing. The most unbearable thing is that when he doesn't even know what he wants, he just disappears so confusedly.

That's the absurd thing.

"Actually, I think that Mr. Su is very good." Qi Xiaomin next to him suddenly came over, "I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but only a person like Mr. Su can be called a male god who can be seen from afar and cannot be harassed. what!"

"It's better to get closer." Du Xin couldn't help muttering.

"It's normal for a young man to have some thoughts." The old man Fang Qin next to him also smiled suddenly, and then patted Du Xin on the shoulder, "But this young Mr. Su may not be so close."

"Ah?" Du Xin was obviously puzzled, "Mr. Fang, what do you mean by that?"

"It's nothing." Mr. Fang patted Du Xin on the shoulder again, but he didn't continue talking, but turned to Su Zimo with a pointed smile.

The more Su Zimo looked at Mr. Fang, the more familiar he felt, as if he had just met him not long ago. During this period of time, Su Zimo seemed to meet some people he was not familiar with only when he attended grandfather's funeral. This old man Fang Qin seemed to be one of them.

"Jin Lei, have you found any new clues?" Cheng Yun waited for a while, and tapped the water bottle at hand with his fingers anxiously, his tone as calm as possible.

It's been a day since he was stupefied, and the performance of this "Cheng Yun" seems to be getting less and less calm. It's just that Xiaohuo and the others here are also getting more and more impatient, so no one feels wrong.

"I asked you to call me by my name before, but you were only willing to call me Dr. Jin. Are you anxious now?" Jin Lei lowered her head and said, without even looking up to see Cheng Yun's reaction.

"After all, the loss of mission failure is huge." Cheng Yun seemed to be asking to stabilize himself, while holding the water bottle with greater strength, he tried to smile at Su Zimo, "Mr. Su, a newcomer and a senior The Nightmare Points given each time is at least 10 points, right? Strengthening the body once is not very effective, but it takes 5 points. You must strengthen it several times to feel the change. It takes 10 points to bring low-level items out of the Nightmare World, and the failure to clear the game will cancel the death. The punishment also needs 10 points, and the nightmare point is 0 when you fail, or you will die if you don’t get enough deductions.

"Yeah, because the more people clear the level, the more Nightmare Points we get, so even if it's difficult, we still hope that all the practitioners will pass the level alive." Su Zimo adjusted his glasses, "Even so, it's still not enough."

"But after the tenth Nightmare World, I clearly felt different." Before Cheng Yun finished speaking, Qi Xiaomin and Du Xin, two practitioners who belonged to the Dawning Organization but were not yet qualified, immediately revealed a hint of confusion. With the appearance of a headache, Fang Qin and Wan Ling, the non-dawning practitioners, were curious.

Obviously, after becoming members of Dawning, they have some channels to know what will happen after the tenth nightmare world.

"The 10th Nightmare World is like a threshold. Most of the newcomers in Nightmare World fell outside the threshold, which is terrible. But the vast majority of those who were able to cross the threshold were experienced practitioners who chose enhancements and props along the way. , I already have the ability to forcibly break through the ordinary nightmare world, and I also have dozens or even hundreds of nightmare points on my body, 5:10 points are a bit insignificant for the experiencers at this time."

"After the tenth Nightmare World, the practitioners only enter the Nightmare World once a month, which is a little easier than before, and people won't be too nervous."

"So starting from the eleventh Nightmare World, the Nightmare Points you get every time you complete the mission are the same as before, just like after this mission is completed, you and I, Mr. Su, get the same Nightmare Points." I don't know why , Cheng Yun kept looking at Su Zimo with a smile on his face, "But if the mission fails, Mr. Su needs to deduct 10 Nightmare Points, but I will be deducted 90% of the Nightmare Points I have!"

"Percentage?" Su Zimo also didn't expect that the usage of those Nightmare Points would be upgraded.

"Yes, and the decimal point will be removed, either rounding or directly." Cheng Yun shrugged, "The good news is that the Nightmare Point required to take away the props remains the same. After all, after completing the tenth Nightmare World, Only those items that are particularly powerful will arouse the interest of the trainee, and the Nightmare Points required to take them away are very objective. The bad news is that the Nightmare Points required to strengthen a body have become 50 points.”

"Ah, it's really terrible." The word "poverty" was almost pressed on Qi Xiaomin's head.

However, Su Zimo tilted his head. He felt that 90% of the Nightmare Points already meant that it wasn't scary at all. 0 o'clock, even if it is only 1 o'clock, he can survive.

"It is indeed a high consumption, but some experienced practitioners have tried it once with gritted teeth. I heard that the effect of strengthening is more obvious than 10 times before, so it is not a disadvantage." When Cheng Yun said this, his mood stabilized. , you can even relax on the back of the chair, "So you must use your nightmare point carefully, and don't take anything out when you see it. It is a very good habit for hamsters to stock up on food."

"Of course, the more food there are, the more afraid of death the hamster is." Cheng Yun took a deep breath, "After all, if you fail once, 90% of the nightmare points will disappear, which is no different from bankruptcy."

"It seems that Captain Cheng is a very big hamster." Su Zimo just boasted quietly, "I don't know if a practitioner who has experienced 20 nightmare worlds will change again. Is it different?"

"I don't know." Cheng Yun's smile suddenly converged this time, "Even in the information database of Dawning, there has never been any information provided by practitioners who have experienced the world of nightmares twenty times, and some people even say that no one can complete it. The 20th Nightmare World quest, and the people who failed to pass the customs no longer have any information, it seems that deducting the Nightmare Points can't keep them alive."

"Entering the nightmare world once a week, 20 times is 50 weeks, just over a year." Cheng Yunmei clenched, "That is to say, almost all the practitioners who enter the nightmare world live..."

"Okay, don't talk about this topic!" Bai Man immediately interrupted Cheng Yun's topic and asked Dr. Jin, "Jin Lei, just now Captain Cheng asked you if you had any new clues."

"Hahaha, as far as I know, there are quite a few people who have lived for more than a year." The lunatic over there was shaking the drinking water bottle in his hand like a bottle of wine, "They are all a bunch of ugly guys like mice, Because I knew that no one could pass through the nightmare world 20 times, I deliberately started to fail the customs clearance after nineteen, eighteen, or even fifteen times. The failed nightmare world didn’t seem to be counted. Live in failure."

"But, after ten times, isn't the punishment for failure as heavy as 90%?" Qi Xiaomin looked puzzled.

"If it's a hamster, it's really heavy." Su Zimo thought of something, "But after so many failures, how many nightmare points will these practitioners have? 1 point or 2 points? As long as the nightmare point is not 0, failure The punishment is nothing to them."

"Hahaha, that's it, from the beginning, I thought you were very clever little brother." The madman smiled, "Because there are legends that if you continue to live like this for a certain number of times, terrible things will happen, so part of it is like a mouse. Gou is alive. There is another part... Like a beast lurking in the dark, relying on this method to continue his life, and then constantly arming himself in the dark, making himself stronger, and thinking about going to challenge the twentieth nightmare world."

"There is no more nightmare point, how can you arm yourself and make yourself stronger?"

"Ah!" As soon as Qi Xiaomin asked the question, Dr. Jin suddenly stood up from the chair with the work diary and said in a loud voice, "I found a new clue!"

However, Su Zimo found that Dr. Jin's forehead was sweating, and she was nervous.

Jin Lei may not have found any new clues, but she just doesn't want this topic to continue, because Qi Xiaomin asked a very fatal question... How should an experiencer without nightmare points become stronger

Su Zimo lowered his head slightly, thinking that "killing people and taking treasures" is a good explanation.

Relying on the strength that is already stronger than ordinary trainers, they rob other trainers of their props to arm themselves... If there are such trainers, then they are beasts as the madman said, and they are ferocious predators!

After being a predator for a long time, people will always know the appearance and other information. After all, the nightmare world can use the basic functions of the mobile phone, and the experienced person who has been stolen or even killed is not necessarily really dead.

So predators are best hidden in the dark, they need to hide their names, their various information, and even their appearance... A prop that can disguise their appearance should become the favorite of predators.

Su Zimo's right hand was gently clasped. He knew why Jin Lei interrupted Qi Xiaomin's words, because Dr. Jin felt that "Cheng Yun" sitting opposite them was such a predator hiding in the dark.

And the lunatic... Su Zimo raised his head and looked at the man with a beard who was still drinking drinking water to get drunk, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"What clue?" The others' attention was successfully focused on her by Jin Lei.

"Cough cough." Jin Lei, who made a big move but was a little weak, could only stand there, focusing all her attention on the work diary in front of her, but finally sat down a little embarrassedly, "It seems that I think wrong"

"Can we take a look too? Dr. Jin, you are putting too much pressure on yourself." Su Zimo and Jin Lei were separated from each other, so he could only ask from a distance.

"Yeah." Jin Lei pushed the log to Su Zimo, while she closed her eyes and started doing eye exercises.

Su Zimo opened the work log with some curiosity, and was taken aback by the messy and unknown words that rushed toward his face. He flipped through it for a while and found that the work log was very thick and thick, and the cover still vaguely read " The word 7" seems to be just one of many work diaries.

It's like writing one every day.

wait... every day? ! !

Su Zimo found something wrong, and after looking at the vaguely recognizable numbers on the cover, he began to check the date in the upper left and upper right corner of each page of the log. Because it is a work log, each page of the log has a date, and because the format of the date is simple, although Su Zimo can't see a few pages clearly, he can get the result by comparing it before and after.

After determining the date, Su Zimo began to compare the contents of each page.

"This work log is a little different from what I imagined." Su Zimo turned a few pages to confirm, and then said, "Although I don't understand the family doctor's words at all, part of it is even due to the influence of time. I can't read it clearly, but the date on each page of the log is barely discernible."

"What can you tell from the date?" Xiaohuo, who was scurrying around, came over and glanced at the diary in Su Zimo's hand, then covered his forehead and walked away with a headache, "Oh my God, was this really written by the people of the earth? ?"

"This family doctor writes a diagnosis log every day, including weekends and holidays, and writes a log every day. The 'symptoms', 'diagnosis results' and 'physician's recommendations' classified in the log are all full." Su Zimo frowned slightly, "These words are in print, so I won't admit them wrong."

"Should be a more responsible family doctor? The patient in charge may also need to be taken care of." Du Xin guessed.

"But the handwriting on each page is different, that's what I find strange." Su Zimo said seriously, "I just read the diagnosis log of my grandfather's personal doctor not long ago, even though that doctor is also a doctor every day. There are records, but the contents recorded over a period of time are almost the same, only the details are slightly different. This is not to be lazy, after all, no matter how serious the disease is, it cannot be very different every day, not to mention the family doctor's The work log is very thick, and there may even be many such thick logs, indicating that the patient he is in charge of should have been sick for a long time."

Hearing the words "personal doctor", Du Xin glanced at Su Zimo silently.

"I can't read his handwriting, but I compare each page of his records as graphics and pictures, and I can hardly find words and phrases that look exactly the same, and even the number of words on each page is very large. Go in and out." Su Zimo laid the log flat on the table, "Doctor Jin, does this mean that the contents of each page are completely different?"

"You're right." Jin Lei's expression became serious, "I found a lot of work logs scattered on the ground in the room on the third floor, each one is so thick, I just took one and read it down. This family doctor should be in charge of a patient who has been ill for a long time, and his condition will not change much for a few days or even months. It’s just a slight change in the basics, it’s impossible for the logs to be completely different for more than ten days.”

"So the conclusion is?" Everyone was also nervous.

"Two possibilities." Jin Lei raised two fingers, "One is that this family doctor is responsible to the extreme, and the other is that this family doctor simply scribbles on the log every day and is irresponsible. Ultimate."

"I prefer the latter." Jin Lei turned a few more pages, "because even if there is a doctor whose handwriting is the same as the scripture, after working in the hospital for so many years, I can always distinguish some commonly used words for diagnosis, but in this diary I really can't understand any of the patterns, most of them may really be the wavy lines randomly drawn by the family doctor!"

At that moment, Su Zimo's mind seemed to have a family doctor with a beard and a wine bottle like Mr. Madman, lying on the chair in the room every day, drinking and laughing, drawing wavy lines and words on the work log. Ghost painting, solve a day's work in less than a minute.

Although it was just Su Zimo's imagination, it was uncomfortable.

"Is there really such an irresponsible family doctor?" Du Xin couldn't believe it, "Looking at the scale of this villa, it should belong to a big family."

irresponsible

Su Zimo suddenly looked at the broken vase at his feet again, and at the remarks on it that he was already very familiar with—

[Nightmare brand common vase (no star)]

[Price: 1 yuan]

[Description: I have been wiped by the maid all the time, but is the maid relaxed now? Why not come? ]

A family doctor who takes care of a chronically ill patient is messing with the work log, and the maid who should be working hard is also slack? And what about the other working servants in this villa? Are you coping with your own work just like them? Why did the owner of the villa not control it

Why is the entrance to the second floor blocked? What is the "banging" sound coming from the second floor? Who on earth was walking on the floor on the second floor, making a heavy "creak" sound

"We have to go to the room again." Maybe it was because Su Zimo provided new clues before, but when he spoke again, everyone couldn't help but focus on this newcomer who had only experienced two nightmare worlds. body.

As for Du Xin... Su Zimo in his eyes almost glowed.